[72188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who broke .org?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Jul 1 22:39:30 2004
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 02:37:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0407012210160.59605@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
To: Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tim Wilde wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> > maybe they had some whacky attack like Akamai got? I'll have to troll the
> > nanog archives for the info on finding which/where/what .org TLD box you
> > are querying when there are problems. Rodney had noted that such info is
> > helpful for them to figure out what parts of their pods are having
> > problems.
>
> dig @tld1.ultradns.net. whoareyou.ultradns.net.
>
> Will tell you the IP you're talking to.
>
> dig @tld1.ultradns.net. whoami.ultradns.net.
>
> Will tell you who it thinks you are.
that's the stuff I was searching for :)
>
> Unfortunately, neither of those is very helpful if the query is timing
> out. I think Rodney has mentioned that traceroutes are helpful in that
> case, though.
>
Yea, I suppose I was striving for the: "Don't tell me the internet is
busted, tell me how you think it's busted" Thanks!
